How Gun Control Proponents Will Eventually Win....

This is my first thread, and I apologize if it's in the wrong category, but I have noticed something lately in the gun control debate....

Most gun rights advocates have a lot of ammunition (pun intended) for arguing against gun control. There are many logical reasons to own a gun, but
lately I'm noticing a few of these arguments are being systematically defeated by examples of real life occurrences. For example, one point the "gun
nuts" usually make is "if only someone else was carrying then they could have taken the shooter out, and prevented a lot of deaths". Well, what if the
shooting in front of the Empire State Building this year (Where the NYPD shot nine bystanders), was set up to give the "gun grabbers" a real life
event to cite when arguing why more CCWs is a bad idea.

Another point usually made is "it's the people that kill, not the gun". While it does seem logical that if someone is determined to kill they will use
anything to get the job done. However, it's hard to use any facts to back this up until... the events yesterday. Someone in China slashed or stabbed
like 22 kids in an elementary school on the same day as the horrible shooting here. When you look at the big picture this is not a coincedence. This
was another 'operation' to give the "gun grabbers" another real life occurrence to cite. They now have two very similar situations where the only
variables are the weapons used, and the number deceased. The kids in China were only hurt with the knife, the American kids however were killed with
guns. This gives the "gun grabbers" ground to stand on fighting the "guns don't kill people" stance.

The last point I can think of is "When seconds count, the police are minutes away". Well, in the mall shooting last week, the press drilled it home
that the reponse of the police and SWAT were in record time. They prevented a lot of deaths by getting there so soon. Once again, another winning
argument "gun nuts" used to use.

If you subscribe to the "staged shooting" conpiracies, then I need your help. We need to figure out what other possible scenarios would need to happen
in order for guns right advocates to have no leg to stand on anymore. I've given three common arguments, please contribute, we may be able to predict
the next one!

For the record, I am FOR gun rights. These are just my observations of how they will convince the public that guns are bad. They will stage more
shootings!!!!

Wait what??? I do own guns, I was just pointing out how they will be banned. They need the public to demand it. Without real life instances to
demonstrate why guns are bad in all situations that will never happen. I think were on the same side here. Also, I am not a Nazi by any means.. what a
weird interpretation you have of my post.

The last point I can think of is "When seconds count, the police are minutes away".

LMAO! Where do you live?

Police are many minutes away in some areas, average response was about 45 minutes in a town I lived in that had 4 tons of red tape and hoops to jump
through to get a shotgun, never mind handgun, and crime is rampant there.

Where I am now, it takes 15 mins. to buy ANY handgun, $10 and a simple form for a permit to carry concealed, and the crime rate here is almost non
existent, except for the drugs crimes, junkies "opting out" kind of stuff.

I prefer living in this environment. The wide spread feeling of being comfortable around guns here seems to also keep people respectful of others on
a non-spoken level. I hate guns, but I love my rights to have them if necessary in today's world.

No, I think the civilians should have access to the same firepower as the police or military. Otherwise, there is no point to the 2nd amendment
without being able to keep our government in check,

Really? Cause I don't see that AK-47 helping much against tanks and jets. You will never have the firepower of the US military. Idiots owning assault
rifles are not able to "keep our government in check," that's just what gun owners like to fantasize about.

Charleton Heston said his gun would have to be pried out of his cold dead hands. I don't think the government has a problem with that.

Ok, I don't have access to that firepower, but if you got the cash.... I agree we are at the point of no return. A little pea shooter will not stop a
bomb from being dropped on your house. I guess that's the point, as George Carlin would make, it's the illusion of freedom.

You think gun laws are going to go crazy because of school incidents? It won't happen.
Do you know how many people die yearly from prescribed medications or blown tires causing accidents?

More than who die in school shootings.
To make new federal gun laws over such small % numbers is not realistic, and once America's ADHDTV attention disorders are shifted to the next news
story, the outrage is forgotten about.

It's an obvious fear mongering tactic, it never generates enough steam. They are more interested in generating general fear overall.

Yeah, but Americans will demand more and more restrictions incrementally. I am not saying this is the one that will do it, but they will keep
happening in different ways and with different types of people that eventually nobody will be allowed to have one. Also, I don't think statistics are
needed when Americans react emotionally. They will pass these "feel-good" laws that have no affect, and they will regret it one day. If Piers Morgan
was losing his can every night over tires blowing out, you would be able to see tire legislation from a mile away.

This is a thread about the agenda specifically. It's about what other common arguments gun advocates use that that whoever is staging these shootings
(if you believe that) will have to defeat. This is not a "is gun ownership right/wrong? and/or justified"? thread.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for as far a contributions to this thread....

Gun rights advocates usually state that "if only that location wasn't a gun free zone, then someone else would likely be carrying and stop the
perp". Well, the recent shootings all happened in "gun free zones", so I would expect the next big shooting to take place in a location where CCWs
are known to be in abundance.

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